Jamamala - Slashdot User

Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? 335

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @01:20PM from the leave-a-note-on-the-fridge dept.

smee2 writes "In the past, when a family member died, you could look through their files and address books to find all the people and businesses that should be notified that the person is deceased. Now the hard-copy address book is becoming a thing of the past. I keep some contact information in a spreadsheet, but I have many online friends that I only have contact with through web sites such as Flickr. My email accounts have many more people listed than my address book spreadsheet. I have no interest in collecting real world info from all my online contacts. The sites where I have social contact with people from around the world (obviously) require user names and passwords. Two questions: 1. How do you intend to let the executors of your estate or family members know which online sites/people you'd like them to notify of your demise? 2. How are you going to give access to the passwords, etc. needed to access those sites in a way that doesn't cause a security concern while you're still alive?"

Successful Stem Cell Replacement of Windpipe 116

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @04:59PM from the difficult-to-gasp dept.

thepacketmaster writes "In what is being hailed as a medical milestone, CNN reports a woman suffering from long-term tuberculosis had her lower trachea and bronchial tube replaced by tissue grown from her own stem cells. A team from the universities of Barcelona, Spain; Bristol, England; and Padua and Milan, Italy, decided to go ahead with the surgery instead of having to remove her left lung. The operation, reported Wednesday in the British medical journal The Lancet, has been hailed as a major leap for medicine that could offer new hope for patients suffering from serious illness."

Activision On Iterating, Innovating Call Of Duty Series 66

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 10, 2008 @09:41PM from the check-out-our-flamethrower-it's-kickin-rad dept.

Activision's Noah Heller sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the refinements made in Call of Duty: World at War to keep the popular FPS franchise moving forward. He points to cosmetic things, like realistic burning and the ability to set just about everything in the environment on fire, as well as bigger gameplay improvements, such as making the AI more difficult to beat without having it "cheat." "... the main thing we tried to do is honestly make the placement just more brutal. You've always got an advantage on the enemy; you've been through the level before, you know where they're going to be, but in Veteran mode you're going to find that they're not going to cheat. You're really going to have to be going for headshots using the most effective weaponry. You're going to have to use that bolt-action rifle and aim for the head if you want to take an enemy out at a distance. It's a different sort of gameplay. We heard those concerns and we tried to address them."

Barack Obama Wins US Presidency 3709

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @09:30AM from the enough-of-that-now-this dept.

Last night, around 11pm, all the major networks announced that Senator Barack Obama had won the election. Soon after, Senator McCain conceded. There were no crazy partisan court hearings, just a simple election. This is your chance to talk about it and what it means for the future of our nation.

Comment Linux version (?) (Score 1) 440

by Jamamala on Thursday October 16, 2008 @03:27PM (#25404015) Attached to: Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows

Yes, I know there are projects like Splashtop, but each time I've heard about them they seem to only come with the purchase of a particular product (e.g., a motherboard or laptop).

Are there any free linux projects that aim to do this type of thing? Or would even do this type of thing as a side-effect of being really lightweight?

What I'd be looking for as an end user is a graphical environment, in which I can start up a browser and maybe an IM client.

Would an installation of Knoppix fit the bill? I've never tried actually installing it...

Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris 38

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @02:20PM from the one-day-in-linux-would-be-nice dept.

13bpower writes "Sun developer Erwann Chenede posted a new plugin for Nautilus that will integrate ZFS's backup capabilities with Nautilus. This should be a pretty killer feature." As one of the comments puts it, this adds a "Time Machine-esque" function to Solaris, through which a user can specify backup frequency, and when needed browse from available snapshots to restore files.

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